Early modern historian. Loves gender, women's, social & royal histories. Ventures elswhere when interest is piqued. Blog may cover above themes or something a little more random. Find me on Twitter @ruthrblair

The Versatile Blogger Award

I’ve been nominated for this award twice in the last two weeks!!

I’ve been a little slow in responding to the first nomination as work was crazy busy and if I’m completely honest I wanted to have a few more ‘history’ posts on my blog before adding another that I would keep in the ‘blogging’ category. The second nomination has given me a nudge to say thank you to Cynthia from Moments with Cynthia (link here) for my first nomination and thank you to Heather from Down to Business Mom (link here).

I was born in Liverpool, England, but I’ve lived in south-west London since I was eighteen and will have been an honorary Londoner for thirty years in May!

I was a very shy teenager and I’m still reluctant to speak in public – having a public blog is terrifying, yet also rewarding!

I went to university to study history aged forty!

I’m great to visit a museum with: a quick look at all the sparkly stuff and then head to the gift and coffee shops!

I have to be led away from second-hand book shops (actually, any book shop)!

My blog posts can take up to a week to research and write which does eat into family time if I’m not careful.

I have several blog posts that have been started and abandoned – I really need to look at those – but sometimes my discipline is poor and I shoot off on a tangent rather than finishing a post!

I’m going to nominate people that have commented on my blog recently that I may have been remiss in not following or have recently followed me, as my busy lifestyle means I often intend to follow-up on my new followers and yet find that I don’t. This gives me the perfect opportunity to peruse their blogs and better late than never!

Please forgive me if I’ve missed anyone out who feels they deserve it – let me know and I’ll add you to it . . . seriously, it’s such a hard job choosing from all the worthy blogs.

Nope – poor attention span – I do enjoy, but I have an agenda – if I want to see the Egyptian rooms or whatever that’ll be my goal of the day. It’s probably because there are so may disparate subjects and I usually have a theme that I need to study rather than although there are some places that I’ll walk until my legs hurt! (Tower of London) 🙂